Brazilian plane makes emergency landing with no front wheels

An Avianca Airlines passenger jet safely made an emergency landing in Brasilia on Friday after its front landing gear failed to deploy, authorities said. None of the 49 passengers and crew of five on the Fokker 100 jet were injured when the plane landed on its rear wheels before lowering the nose onto the runway, the Brazilian Air Force said. “The plane suffered a hydraulic problem and the front landing gear did not open, so the pilot did a belly landing,” an Air Force spokesman said.